Hi Everyone! Decided to try something a little different, and came across this tutorial on rubber stamps. So I got some of the rubber they recommended, designed up a small book stamp (that I’ll be experimenting with for some sort of reading incentive), and gave it a go.
I did use the settings the tutorial recommended, but only did one pass instead of 3…as I watched it, it seemed deep enough and I thought three might have ended up burning all the way through. Then I took a piece of Thick Clear Acrylic and reverse-etched the image there, then painted it before peeling the masking off. Super glue worked to bond the rubber to the block, the top of the block is smooth and the etching sandwiched between the acrylic and the rubber. Could easily NOT engrave the acrylic block and use double stick tape for changeability. The detail of the finished stamp is really quite phenomenal, in my limited experience with rubber stamps.
I used to have literally over a thousand dollars worth of rubber stamps. I gave them all to my daughter. Wish I would have had a GF back then, as I used to love the acrylic blocks to use my stamps with. I even took all the stamps off the wooden blocks they came on. I also used to carve my own from rubber sheets, which, of course, didn’t give me the clean, crisp details I really wanted, and which the GF can now do. Going to have to get me some rubber and make me some more!
